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Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows

Keira Koch '19Keira Koch ’19 plans to research women’s experiences at Gettysburg College through different time periods using primary sources from Special Collections. She intends to use Scalar to create an interactive narrative/story book to tell the story using various media.
Julia Wall '19Julia Wall ’19 wants to work with the 1861 West Point photo album in Special Collections. Her project will be to create a digital “yearbook” that compiles information about members of the class of 1861 (especially what happened to them after they left the academy). She also wants to incorporate a digital timeline and map.

Lauren White '18Lauren White ’18 is majoring in English and Environmental Studies. She wants to create a digital project that documents the history of social justice movements at Gettysburg College and links them to broader social movements. She is also interested in timeline tools.

Digital Scholarship Working Group

Clint Baugess is a Research & Instruction Librarian at Musselman Library and coordinates the library’s information literacy instruction program. He also serves as the librarian liaison for Gettysburg College’s History department. With a background in instruction, he is interested in how digital history can enhance undergraduate learning and research.

Catherine Perry is Digital Projects and Collections Manager in Special Collections and College Archives at Musselman Library. With her background in Italian, she serves as library liaison to the Italian department. She is interested in seeing how students at Gettysburg College creatively use new tools to present Special Collections materials through digital historical representations.

Donna Skekel is the Electronic Resources Librarian in the Technical Services Department at Musselman Library. As a librarian who manages a multitude of acquired and subscription-based online content, she is enthusiastic about the fellows actively and creatively using technology for open access digital scholarship that may provide sources for and connections to researchers beyond Gettysburg College.

R.C. Miessler is the Systems Librarian at Musselman Library. A lifelong geek in all things religion and technology, he’s interested in how students and faculty can use technology to present and interpret humanities research, as well as the intersection of gaming and digital humanities.

Janelle Wertzberger is Assistant Dean and Director of Scholarly Communications at Musselman Library. Her library background is in research and instruction, and she currently manages Gettysburg College’s institutional repository, The Cupola. She is planning to use Scalar to build a 21st century digital “scrapbook” chronicling a student trip to Bali in 2016 and will be learning along with the Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows.